Before the European parliament James Lindsay gave a speech, “Woke, A Cultural War Against Europe.” In it he said that woke is a form of socialism, with only differences at present being in the type of property and shares that are distributed. While conventional Marxism, as was known through the work of Marx and Lenin, was concerned primarily with the alleged oppressive economics of capitalism mainly by what Marx saw as the unjust extraction of surplus value in the labour process by the capitalist class, in the 20th century, the failure of communist revolutions to develop in the West led to various schools of cultural and neo-Marxism taking the cultural root, and utilising the mass migration that was occurring, in the need to create a new revolutionary class.
Thus, the concepts of class and economic surplus value used by Karl Marx came to be replaced by cultural concepts, such as gender fluidity and the deconstruction of whiteness. Whiteness itself became the new evil, that previous generations of Marxists had not addressed.